Social Monkey – Free Social Bookmarking Tool
There are a lot of social bookmarking tools out there to help webmasters get more inbound links to their sites. However, most of the big name tools are expensive and need a lot of updates to continue working properly. The Social Monkey web site has an awesome bookmarking tool that makes adding bookmarks to new posts, web 2.0 sites and more a snap.
Do I Need This Social Bookmarking Tool?
For many marketers doing the small stuff like bookmarking their newest content can be one of the most time consuming tasks. This free tool will instantly give save you hours a week if you are a one man operation. Using this tool you can post to 25 bookmarking sites instantly, you don’t even have to create the accounts it does it for you! This is very similar to the tool that we reviewed in the Social Bookmarking Power post we did back in November of last year. This tool brings an added value of creating the accounts automatically, it contains better reports and they even have a one time upgrade that is a pretty good deal, considering most all similar services use a monthly subscription. The free version is completely functional you are simply limited to one submission per day and only to 25 social bookmarking sites. The upgrade boosts you to 3 per day and up to 100 social sites per pop.
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If you enjoyed me sharing about this tool click the banner below and if you ever decide to upgrade, I’ll get free coffee out of the deal, or something like that.
Social Monkey Link Building Updates Coming Soon
I have just started using the Social Monkey tool, so I will report back later on this post after I have had more time to analyse its impact and usefulness.
For the time being go get your membership while its still free and post below with any comments or questions you may have on this awesome free web site tool!
To Success,
Nick Simpson
Top 5 Paid Directories
Well everybody wants to get their web site or blog listed in as many free directories as possible. This is great, but what most webmasters are not thinking about is quality. The only value a web directory can offer is quality listings and some page rank on the directory that you are to be listed on. If you use free directories you may be able to get your link on a page that has some PR, but this is not everything. You need to be aware that free directories do not have the motivation to keep the structure of their site up to date and remove dead links from their listings.
If Google finds you link on a page that has good page rank, but your link is surrounded by dead links, this will not look very appetizing to Google. You need to understand that the quality of the directory is “as” important if not more important than the PR of it’s pages. This is why in many cases the most valuable directory listings to get involved with are not free. The money spent is many times turned over to those who keep the directory up to date and continue site maintenance to assure that each and every link on the directory site is active and accurate. Just like anything else, you really do get what you pay for when it comes to buying a spot on a top website directory.
If you are ready to get serious and take your website to the next level by spending some money to get a high quality back link to you, here is our own top 5 paid directory listing list.
Top Ten Paid Directories (Domain – Page Rank – Price)
- Yahoo.com PR 8 – $299
- Business.com PR 7 $199
- Best of the Web PR 7 $69-$300
- JoeAnt.com PR6 $39.99
- MassiveLinks.com PR4 $39.99 – $79.99
There are other directories out there, but these are the ones that stick out and seem to have the cleanest and most up to date listings on the web. We don’t think you will find better value anywhere else, but if you do run across a paid directory that you think deserves to be listed here, simply leave a comment or contact me and I will be sure to consider it as an addition to the list of the top 5 paid directories here on Webmaster Business Plan.
Good luck with your site listing and we hope the list of useful resources above can help bring your website traffic to the next level. Even successful websites can use a boost and these site have proved to be among the top directories out there.
To Success,
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